ODMEA -- here, here, totally agree
Red Baron - well it all depends what word you use...if it is "niggah" then you are cool but if it is "nigger" then it is offensive.
Very strangely enough, the rule only appllies of you are a black person. If you are white, whichhever word you say, you are rascist...so the anti-rascist policy is itself rascist!
Anyway, some of my colleagues call me Cracker which I quite like ;-)